Backseat Quote by Chris McDaniel

The Republican Party has moved substantially to the right of where Reagan was.

— H. W. Brands

I wonder if these people today would think Reagan was a Reagan conservative.

— Michael Reagan

Eight years after Reagan's nomination for president, the conservative movement is directionless

— Richard Viguerie

Reagan has been deified by the Republican Party, which is odd. The Reagan that modern Republicans revere is not the real Reagan.

— H. W. Brands

I'm trying to uphold what was true about conservatism. I consider myself a Reagan conservative.

— Bill Kristol

I'm a proud Reagan conservative.

— John McCain

“Once Reagan was elected, the Republican strategy had two components. The first was to build from the bottom up, getting the party rooted so…

— Mark Lilla

Back in 1980, the conservative movement was all-in for Ronald Reagan. Once Reagan won, they all wanted to be on the team. It was…

— Rush Limbaugh

I am a Reagan Republican.

— Roger Stone

It's time for conservative Americans to do what Reagan did.

— Mike Pence

Movement Conservatism was a fringe force from the 1950s until the 1980s, when voters elected Movement Conservative Ronald Reagan to the White House. But…

— Heather Cox Richardson

The Republicans, with their crazed Reagan fixation, are a last-gasp party, living posthumously, fighting battles on sex, race, immigration and public education long ago…

— Maureen Dowd